Bishop Butler and Logic, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Age of Unreason
by David E. White and Michael J. Maranda
Using ordinary language and appealing to the acknowledged facts of experience, Bishop Butler presented a guidebook on how to live in pursuit of happiness and the benefit of all. This book introduces readers to Butler's philosophy as a whole and to the primary texts in his own words. Butler was an advocate and consistently defended the Church of England and its associated morality and theology in all his works. He insisted on the necessity of having good reasons to support any belief or practice...
Church Representation Rules is a vital tool for all involved in parochial, deanery, diocesan and national Church governance. Full of essential information and guidelines, this 2017 edition has been extensively revised to reflect the most recent changes up to and including the provisions of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016. Also included are the rules governing: * the formation and revision of the electoral roll; * the minimum qualifying age for election to the Parochial Chur...
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The Hope of Things to Come (Affirming Catholicism)
A collection of essays on the past, present and future of Anglican theology in the context of the Lambeth Conference of 2008.
Funerals in Church (Introducing the Church of England S.)
Canon George Austen Remembered in a Personal Perspective of Today: Reflections of Philosophies (The Moral Mind)
by Peter Rossdale
Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, is credited with a pivotal role in the English Reformation. As well as playing a leading part, together with Henry's Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in securing the separation of the Church in England from the authority of the Roman Church and the Pope enabling Henry both to marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn, and to become Supreme Head of the Church of England, he also began, prior to Henry's death in 1547, to introduce liturgical reforms into th...
Emblem of Faith Untouched (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))
by Leslie Williams
Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history; his life and career epitomize the great transformation of the country in the space of 35 years. This biography investigates the paradox of this "man for all seasons": the man of the world who travelled across Europe to negotiate on behalf of his king, and the unworldly man whose careful silence on the matter of Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn...
Advent-the season in which we prepare for the coming of the Savior-provokes a certain ambivalence among modern believers. We know that Christ has come in the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth, and we live anticipating his return, knowing that our true home is one which he has gone ahead to prepare for us. In the meantime, we are left living between those two worlds. Moorehead uses the witness of the scriptures, her wealth of experience in long years of ministry, and the wisdom of her own li...